Grassley Says Workload Discourages Women Senators From Joining Judiciary Panel, Then Walks Back Remark  —  Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) predicted that there would be more Republican women on his panel next year, after suggesting that the panel's workload was a deterrent.

F.B.I. Review of Kavanaugh Was Limited From the Start  —  President Trump, reacting to critics, said the F.B.I. should have a free hand to investigate.  But the White House counsel told him that would be potentially disastrous. … POLICE SHOOTING  —  White Officer Convicted of Murder in the Death of Black Teenager in Chicago

Backfire.  —  At 12:30 in the afternoon on September 27, I don't think there were many serious political thinkers or activists on the Right who thought Brett Kavanaugh would survive that morning's testimony by his accuser, Christine Blasey Ford.  —  Eight days later—today—Kavanaugh all but secured his appointment.

After Lots of Bluster, Trump Has a Week to Brag About  —  WASHINGTON — He promised so much success that everyone would be tired of all the winning.  But after 20 months that proved more arduous than President Trump once imagined, this may be the best week of his presidency so far.

The battle over accusations goes on as Kavanaugh nomination advances  —  Kavanaugh classmates ignored by the FBI speak out, reveal new text message.  —  WASHINGTON — As Senate Judiciary Chairman Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, closed out his executive summary of allegations of sexual misconduct …

Investigation at Yale Law School  —  An inquiry into the actions of a prominent professor reveals why it's so hard to report inappropriate behavior at the top law school in the country.  —  One afternoon late in her first year at Yale Law School, Linda sat down to create a contemporaneous record …

$1.3M Banksy Artwork “Self-Destructs” at Auction  —  A Banksy artwork “self-destructed” at a Friday night Sotheby's auction in London.  —  “Girl with a Balloon” (2006) was the final lot of the evening sale at Sotheby's and ended things off with an impressive final price of £953,829 …

Lawsuits point to large trove of unreleased Kavanaugh White House documents  —  New details have emerged about potentially thousands of Brett Kavanaugh's White House emails and other records related to the Senate hacking scandal from early in the George W. Bush administration …

U.S. General Considered Nuclear Response in Vietnam War, Cables Show  —  WASHINGTON — In one of the darkest moments of the Vietnam War, the top American military commander in Saigon activated a plan in 1968 to move nuclear weapons to South Vietnam until he was overruled by President Lyndon B. Johnson …

Of Demagogues and Pedagogues  —  Colombia demonstrates the value of the political center.  —  Last week I interviewed Colombian President Iván Duque, who took office in August and calls himself a man of the “extreme center.”  In an era of rising populism, I asked …

Apple Insiders Say Nobody Internally Knows What's Going On With Bloomberg's China Hack Story  —  Multiple senior Apple executives, speaking with BuzzFeed News on the condition of anonymity so that they could speak freely all denied and expressed confusion with a report earlier this week …

Austria's Christian Kern withdraws from EU election run  —  Former Austrian Chancellor Christian Kern announced Saturday he will not run as his Social Democratic Party's lead candidate in the European Parliament election and is stepping down from politics.  —  Kern previously said he would stand …